TsN announced yesterday their forthcoming PK Tournament. This provides something for the States-side of the PK community to get its teeth into before the Winter CPL.

All matches will be played on American servers that are agreed upon by both players. If a server cannot be agreed upon, both players will choose a server for their opponents map. In special cases of server disputes, all decisions will be made by TsN staff, in favor of the players.

The tournament will start on Saturday, November 20th, @ 1:00 EST and continue throughout the weekend.

You can find the tournament details post here:
http://www.tsncentral.com/showarticle.php?s=&threadid=5365

The tournament rules are mostly based on the pkeuro tournament ones, which seem (with the CPL adopting them partly from us also), to have set the standard for duel settings.

Fatal1ty(TM)s new website was launched recently, along with a lot of ABIT based promotion of the new gaming hardware available under the Fatal1ty brand.

You can find the website here: http://www.fatal1ty.com/

The site is heavy on streaming video, of which there are four parts from various sources highlighting the activities of this gamer/brand.

Somewhere under all this is still a successful MP gamer, whos attention, no-doubt, will quickly be turning to focus once again on Painkiller, following his defeat at the Summer CPL, losing to Vo0.

Fatal1tys booth tour still continues, where he was joined recently by another PK player, Zen.

Summer CPL Brackets:

http://www.caleague.com/cplbrackets/PainKiller.html

It seems that NBCs prime-time hospital series, ER, recently mentioned PK during one of its episodes : season 11, episode 2. In the past weve seen the staff at the front desk of ER play Doom (back when George Clooney was in it – kid from a drainage pipe during a severe thunderstorm episode). Its good to see theyve moved on since then 🙂

You can view the very short clip here (756k). (you need to be logged in)

*thanks to djuhn for noticing this*

This December Intel will be hosting their third Extreme Edition Challenge Event. This time around the game will be Painkiller & players will be competing to win the life of a pro-gamer with Four Kings.

Four Kings are offering the winner of the Intel Extreme Edition PainKiller event a paid one-year contract with the clan which will include travel to the CPL World Tour events taking place next year. The winner will also get free travel and an auto-berth into the coming CPL Winter Painkiller event!

Like the previous two events a movie will be made to cover all the action, once again the well known film-maker Simon Bysshe has been brought in to direct the film. To check out the previous Intel EEC film (downloaded over 400,000 times) please click here www.gotfrag.com/extremeedition2

A quote from Simon Bysshe:

“I really can’t wait to see this event take place. The previous two events were excellent for both players & spectators. I encourage everyone who can to attend the event & enjoy the atmosphere. I wish all the players the best of luck.”

The event is taking place on the 3rd to 5th of December in central London. To compete for the chance to win the life of a pro-gamer with Four Kings an online qualifier will be opened shortly.

Stay tuned as more details are revealed over the coming days.

This tournament is open to residents of the United Kingdom only.